Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert ... The Cretaceous is split into two smaller time periods called epochs. The Early Cretaceous Epoch lasted from 145 million years ago to ...

Grasshoppers appeared. But perhaps the biggest changes came with the evolution of dinosaurs and the first mammals in the late Triassic, starting around 230 million years ago. The Triassic closed ...

Explore the age of the dinosaurs. Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non ...

Newer discoveries indicate some dinosaur types were likely capable of ... regulation may have had its origin in this Early Jurassic epoch. "Sauropods, on the other hand, which stayed in warmer ...

Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Province’s Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The group determined the skull belonged to a sauropodomorph—a group of dinosaurs that also ...

A genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaurs called Torosaurus flourished in the late Cretaceous epoch. The huge, cattle-like horns that covered the eyes gave rise to the name Torosaurus, ...